Heineken Netherlands offers rewards through foursquare. One of the biggest challenges for foursquare is finding a way to work with companies that sell their product across a wide variety of businesses, but don’t have their own locations where they can offer specials.
An innovative new partnership with Heineken in the Netherlands marks their first attempt at working with a beer brand to reward customers who visit locations where the beer is sold. Foursquare users can link their account to their Heineken.nl profile in order to earn 10 points with each checkin at a participating bar, cafe or club that sells Heineken. Users who encourage five of their friends to sign up get a 50 point bonus and those with a Heineken e-card receive double points. According to Dutch Cowboys, the points can be redeemed for things like merchandise, tickets to sold-out concerts and VIP tickets to parties. Participating locations are identified on a map on Heineken’s site with a foursquare logo. What do you think of this promotion from Heineken?
Miso: A Foursquare-Like App for Homebodies. If your Foursquare check-ins could be limited to backyard outings and trips to the mailbox, you may be interested in a new mobile application called Miso.
With this service, a startup from Bazaar Labs, also the makers of a social network called Flixup! For movie chatter, you can perform Foursquare-like "check-ins" when watching a particular TV show or movie. iTunes - 10 Billion App Countdown. More than 60 apps have been downloaded for every iOS device sold. The iTunes App Store is about to reach 10 billion downloads.
That makes this a good time to revisit app growth metrics and compare them with the other digital media store that we have data for: the iTunes Music Store. First, the download totals as time series[1]: Assuming that 10 billion will be reached this month, we see how the steepness of the app curve implies that apps will overtake songs within a few months. I suspect by March. MASHABLE AWARDS. This post is brought to you by Mobile Future, sponsor of the Mashable Awards' "Best Mobile App" Category.
Its mission is to educate key decision makers on innovations in the wireless industry and to advocate continued investment in wireless technologies. Check out its Year in Review video here. For this year's round of The Mashable Awards, which highlights the very best of web and tech, we introduced the "Best Mobile App" category, as supported by Mobile Future. The five finalists for the category, as voted by Mashable readers, included: DriveSafe.ly, eBuddy, Evernote, ScoutMob and Gravity. This year's winner is DriveSafe.ly, a mobile application that reads text messages and e-mails aloud in real time and automatically responds without drivers touching their mobile phones. DriveSafe.ly. TOPGUEST. If you're an early adopter, you've not doubt heard of (and probably even use) mobile "check-in" applications.
Popular location-based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, Whrrl, TriOut, Loopt and others are all the rage these days, even earning magazine cover stories about the so-called "check-in wars," as different companies fight to win this space the way Facebook won the desktop. But after spending a few weeks "checking in" at every venue, bar, restaurant or club you visit, the excitement wears off and a question comes to mind: "why am I doing this?
" you may ask yourself. Shopkick. Get the top perks just for being there. PSFK presents Future Of Mobile Tagging Report. H&M: GoldRun Demo - Interactive. Black Eyed Peas Launch the Kinda Cool 'BEP360,' But We Still Laugh. The World Park. Fuel for Brands. Distimo report reviewing. App store analytics company Distimo has released a report reviewing the changes in the Apple, Android, Blackberry, and Nokia app stores in 2010, and the results are impressive for all four.
Ovi Store - 3 millions dl/day. Android Market. Apple’ App Store 300,000 apps. Apple‘s App Store now has more than 300,000 apps as of the past day.
Mobclix‘s data shows that in the past 24 hours, Apple added the 300,000th app to its App Store. The number includes both free and paid apps available for downloading. That means that in a little more than two years, Apple has created one of the most population application platforms of all time. Apple crossed 250,000 apps on Aug. 28. App Store Metrics. We originally created our metrics page in the fall of 2008 to celebrate the App Store reaching a milestone of what at the time seemed amazing, 10,000 apps.
There was a tremendous response to that page and to the App Store which is well north of half a million apps now. We’ve added a few more interesting stats and expanded the ones that were there onto this new page. Let us know what else you’d like to see on these page either in the comments below or send us feedback via email. We’ll do what we can to include them in the future. The source of the stats is the iTunes App Store itself. 9/2012: Metrics update. App Store Stats Summary Count of active applications in the App StoreDetails. Mobile Giving.